Broken
Ground is an eruption of spontaneous writing interwoven
throughout bold painting. Nine diary entries meditate on lost
loves, youthful desire, and a struggle for self-knowledge.
The shifting moods of the Aftist's prose, embedded in paintings
composed of ink blots, splotches of color, and a maze of personal
iconography, draws the viewer into a world at once unique
and universal, in this evocative quest for emotional growth
and insight.

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Chapter XXOO

Ed. 18,
15-page Accordion Fold, 9.5" x 5" each page; c:
2004

Letterpress
printed from photopolymer plates; Asahi white covers

A tongue-in-cheek poem commenting on the artist's experience
of dating and gender relations.

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Ten
Reflections on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino ElegiesEd. 40, 10" x 7", c. 1997/2002
Images from original gouache, ink, and pigment paintings
Digitally printed with archival pigmented inks on textured
rag paper with handpainting; Leather spine; Indian paper covers
with handpainting; Flat adhesive binding by Judith Ivry; Text
translation by David Oswald
The vivid language of Rilke's Duino Elegies is uniquely
revealed in the bold, elegant paintings of book artist Mindy
Belloff. After reading the Elegies for many years,
the artist meditated on one a month. Ten Reflections emerged
from a visualization of the poet's words, which are interwoven
throughout. Rilke's expressions of despair, love, fear, and
solitude begins, "Who, if I cried out would hear me then..."

A memorial tribute, the call letters W-2-L-Z-X belonged to
the artist's Uncle, a ham radio operator for over 60 years.
He was a radio operator aboard a B-17 bomber in WWII and a
pioneer in early communications. "W2LZX" is composed
of nostalgic photographs and collaged QSL cards, logged by
ham radio operators. From Morse Code transmissions to computer
electronics, hams have made significant contributions to international
and mass communications. The stories of W2LZX and others like
him resonate culturally, historically, and personally.

Through poetry and images, Caught weaves the story of the artist,
her Mother, and the mythical Gorgon, representing the cancer
that took her Mother's life. The edition communicates a powerful
struggle both psychological and physical, involving intense
feelings and intimate memories, past pain, present healing,
and future hope. . . . wishes, dreams, transformations . . .

The
Blue Ridge - Seven Meditations is a book of monoprints
created in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. They reflect
the country and record seven days of emotional states, as
I shed the stresses of the City and merged with the ebbs and
flows of nature.

Another Day is a letterpress printed edition of text with linocut.
Incorporating the words of poet Joel Gold, this small book
speaks to the details and hardships of daily life, as we wake
up, fight our fears, and have an opportunity to begin again,
"as time binds [us] to another day . . ."

I am my own worst anxiety is a book of
photographic self-portraits with text digitally printed. The
translucent paper creates a kind of afterimage when the page
is turned. This private monologue whispers: I exhaust myself
~ Trying to dodge my shadows ~ Constantly shedding my skin
~ Too concerned about the future ~ Trying to focus on now
~ To be . . .

I am my own worst anxiety inspired a longer text which
was recorded in a layered audio on a 6-minute loop. See mixed
media "Installations"
- "And we always thought we were the normal ones..."
(1999).

Transmutation
contains the first line of Kafka's Metamorphosis in
Volume 1: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy
dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic
insect" and the artist's answer to the text by way of
a dream, in Volume 2. The book speaks of the power of dream
imagery to inform and transform.

The Excision is a diaristic photo narrative. The self-portraits
were taken after a surgical procedure on the artist's breast,
and are combined with text from journal entries. The artist
drew on the photographs as a way to come to terms with medical
terminology, the new incision in her body, and the anxiety
of the unknown.

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